ISLAMABAD: The election observation team from the government of Japan said they observed the February 18 general election in Pakistan was conducted smoothly and transparently. Throughout election process, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was consistently cooperative with the foreign observation teams including Japan. The Japanese team was able to freely visit all the polling […]
The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued notices to Director Generals (DGs) of the Inter Service Intelligence and Military Intelligence on a petition seeking the whereabouts of a man who is missing since September 7 last year. The court was hearing the petition of Mohammad Bashir who submitted that his son Shafiq Ahmed, 19, was missing […]
The Danish Charge d’Affaires was called to the Foreign Office Tuesday by Additional Secretary (Europe) Akbar Zeb to lodge a strong protest over the republication of the blasphemous cartoons in Denmark. While lodging the protest, the additional secretary said the re-publication of the cartoons had deeply offended Muslims feelings and sentiments all over the world. […]
SHIKARPUR, Feb 19: The Pakistan People’s Party candidates Aftab Shaban Mirani (NA-202 Shikarpur-I) and Agha Arsalan Khan (PS-12 Khanpur) on Tuesday accused their rivals of committing large-scale rigging to win seats and said they would not accept the results. According to unofficial results, Aftab Shaban Mirani received 47,675 votes as against 53,752 of his rival, […]
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday urged political leaders not to lower their guard and remain careful because chances of terror strike against them have not diminished altogether. “We should not lower our guard and guidelines that have been issued to political parties and the political leaders should continue to be followed. We should not get […]
ISLAMABAD (February 20 2008): Caretaker Minister for Interior Lieutenant General Hamid Nawaz Khan (Retd) has said that Pakistan is playing vital role in the global war against terrorism and the whole world including the United Nations and United States have commended its efforts to eliminate extremism. He said this while talking to an Indonesian media […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: A coalition of 40 prominent NGOs working for free and fair elections has called for long-term electoral reform in the country. Releasing a post-election day report at a press briefing here, the secretary general of Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) Sarwar Bari said the new government should include electoral system reform […]
LAHORE, Feb 17: The president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Mr Aitzaz Ahsan, has given the next government till March 7 to restore the deposed judges. In a letter addressed to lawyers, Mr Ahsan said: “We will launch the judicial bus and take all (deposed) judges to Islamabad on March 9 if the […]
RAHIM YAR KHAN, Feb 17: In a unique example of swiftness and efficiency, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has arranged printing ballot papers afresh for a constituency from where Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate was disqualified just three days before the elections. The fresh ballot papers were communicated to the returning officer (RO) on […]
MINGORA, Feb 16: Two civilians were killed and 14 others injured when a suicide bomber rammed a car into an army media centre and base near Gul Kadda here on Saturday. An army officer told Dawn that the army base was the main target where a unit of the army was stationed. It was adjacent […]
LARKANA (February 16 2008): For the ensuing general elections-2008 scheduled for February 18, the authorities have declared 21 polling stations as most sensitive and 34 sensitive for NA-204 Larkana out of total 274 polling stations while 219 have been declared as normal. For NA-205 Larkana-II, out of 235 polling stations, 22 have been declared most […]
DERA ISMAIL KHAN (February 16 2008): Dera Ismail Khan police have sealed all the entry points of the city as a precautionary measure for the peaceful conduct of general election on February 18. “This was a very effective strategy which worked out for us and we were able to arrest six alleged would-be suicide bomber” […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday validated the extra-constitutional steps of Proclamation of Emergency, the Provisional Constitution Order, the Oath of Office (Judges) Order, 2007 made by the chief of the Army staff/president on November 3, 2007. A full court headed by Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar delivered detailed judgment in Constitutional Petitions No 87-88 […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: The Centre for Media and Democracy (CMD) has expressed concerns over violence in different parts of the country prior to the elections and called for immediate measures to address the law and order situation. Speaking at a press conference here on Thursday, Thomas George Houlahamn, who leads a 30-member delegation of the […]
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